Nevada Notes and Local News Highlights
Six prisoners in the county jail. Clara McGonagle and Edith Gillett leave for visits to Kennedy and Lovelock. Nevada weather and water issues threaten crops. Willing Workers organize socials at M E Shareh for charity. Otto Williams resigns as Paradise Valley teacher amid marriage rumors. William Barnes bound over for assault. NYC hurricane jolts tall buildings. Kentucky coffin filled with bourbon. Herefords imported to Elko County. California jail term for kissing noted. University regents elect Evans president Taylor secretary. Thanksgiving football injury rollup from Chicago Tribune. Reno shooting case near Lovelton. officer status debated. Caboose fire injures Conductor Cheek and Ramsey. Nevada grumblers urged to use favorable opportunities. Reese River editors publish winter poem.
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Edith Gillett
Lovelock
California
Nevada
Dow
M. E. Shareh
Ain
Otto Williame Hae
Paradise Valley Central
Dane
L. J. Feliz
William Barnes
Grand Jury
Justice Young
Barnes
New York
Winnemucca
Willing Workers
J. R. Bradley
Missouri
Elko County
Merefords
William Roe
Cloverdale
Tonjoy
Roe
Board of Uiversity Regents
J. Evans
Corge H. Taylor
Stubbs
First National Bank of Winnemucca Shareholders Meet
The regular annual meeting of the shareholders of the First National Bank of Winnemucca is set for 10 o clock A M January 14 1897 at the bank in Winnemucca Nevada. The agenda includes electing a board of directors for the ensuing year and amending article 3 of the articles of association. Secretary Geo S Nixon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank of Winnemucca
Winnemucca
Queer Inventions and Patent Fantasies in Declared Field
The new inventions column notes that patent officials now sparingly call ideas hopeless cranks due to advances by Maxim and Langley. It catalogs curious devices like a chicken walker a horse plow cannon plow a tail fan to turn dogs and a sunlit turntable foundation while warning many plans are visionary yet some have become successes despite ridicule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patent Office
Maxim
Langley
South Africa Prices in Johannesburg Gold Camp Expose Odd Costs
A correspondent reports urban wages and living costs in Johannesburg with high prices for food and shelter. Potatoes eight dollars per sack, pork to six dollars a dozen eggs, meat, coal, fuel, and rent figures illustrate inflation and hardship for residents and travelers. He notes meals for a quarter to fifty cents and housing from five to sixty dollars monthly, plus costly transportation and utilities. The piece ends with an advertisement announcing E Reinnar Co. selling shoes in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johannesburg
Butte
Local druggists praise Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and Winslow's Syrup
Perry and Cameron of Flushing Michigan endorse Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as their best cough medicine and sell it at 26 and 59 cents per bottle. They also offer legal blanks for summons subpoenas and other processes. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething is recommended for infants and sold by druggists worldwide at twenty five cents a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry & Cameron
Flushing
Michigan
W. A. Brown
Mas. Winslow
Teett
Mrs. Winelow
Substitute for the Fanding Bill in Senate railroad plan
Washington dispatch reports Senator Morgan offers a substitute bill to control and reform the railroads with a nine member board divided east and west of the Mississippi and a president to be unnamed. The board will not own stock, will manage as a corporation to settle debt with a four percent sinking fund and bonds at three percent interest for 30 years. Morgan claims roads could meet all liabilities within 25 years. Also noted is a Senate- House resolution recognizing foreign independence and aid to Cuba with a ten thousand dollar ministerial salary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Morgan
Painte Railroads
Turn Board of Trustees
Mississippi River
Senate
U. S. Senate
Mill of Texas
House of Representatives
Congress
Legislative Department
Republic of
Cuba
Hotel for Sale in Upper Winnemucca Nevada
Sickness sale of hotel property in upper Winnemucca offered by proprietor Tomas Snann with moderate terms for a right buyer. Also residential house in upper Winnemucca for sale or cattle stock exchange and contact Ernest Duvivier Mill City Nevada for details. Chamberlain Pain Balm advert promises chest relief and photos by Aromarps photographer available before January 10 for Paradise trip with natural color options.
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Upper
Winnemucca
Tomas Snann
Busch Hotel
Upper Town
Archer
Ernest Duvivier
Mill City
Nev
Chamberlain
W. A. Brown
Also Mentioned on This Page
Una
Clara McGonagle
Kennedy
Mare
Editos
U. S
Erind
Chicago Tribune
Reno Gasette
Lovalton
Cal
F. B. Hooley
Hubbard
Young Hooley
J. Hooley
Timmons
Gazette
Cheek
Oreana
Rameey
Ramsey
Messia
Calden
Fitzgibbons
Amazon
Virginia Enterprise
Reese River
Ike
United States Patent Office
South Africa
ROYA
The
California Fig Syrup Company
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J Cheney
West & Truax
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Ioed
Paradise
Sith
Aromarps
A Roef
Giroux
Winnemucca, New
G. W. Summerfielit
Geo
Kyle
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